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A Russian blogger has gone on trial for religious hate crimes because he played Pokémon Go in a church. Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22, was charged with inciting religious hatred after publishing video footage of him playing the popular mobile game in the Yekaterinburg church where the last Russian tsar was

Robbers who meticulously planned a sophisticated jewellery heist were left disappointed after realising that their haul consisted of bread. Qasim Hussain, 28, Hassan Mahmood, 26, and Naheem Hussain, 27, have been given hefty jail sentences for the theft of sandwiches, Tupperware and assorted groceri

A man is suing a pizza chain after his mobile phone was bombarded by a never-ending stream of promotional texts which he was unable to stop. The texts are said to have caused plaintiff Jonathan Anozie significant "anxiety, frustration and annoyance".

A lawyer was pulled from court in a panic yesterday after his trousers caught fire while he outlined his defence of a client accused of arson. Stephen Gutierrez was in the middle of arguing that his client's car combusted spontaneously and was not intentionally set alight.

A man on trial for the alleged theft of just $33 of cheese was found not guilty - but was jailed instead for absconding from the courtroom. Allen Cochran, 49, failed to return for the verdict after sitting through the one-day trial that exonerated him, The Virginian-Pilot reports.

More than three dozen workers are facing prosecution after convincing their colleagues to use fake fingertips to cover up their absences. Some 38 workers are in trouble for skipping work and having colleagues clock in for them - using silicone fingertips to fool a biometric attendance system.

Almost 160 couples in a village in eastern China have filed for divorce in order to gain more compensation for the demolition of their homes. Residents of Jiangbei village in Nanjing face mass eviction as the Chinese government plans to raze their village to build a new hi-tech zone, Nanjing Morning

A frustrated motorist who leaned out of his window and shot a traffic camera with a slingshot has been arrested. Footage recovered from the camera shows a man leaning out of his van and shattering the camera lens with a small projectile.

A police officer responding to reports of a cow loose on the motorway quickly established its whereabouts when he hit it with his car. Daniel Steven Schulz, 30, was searching for the cow at around 10pm on Monday and unexpectedly encountered it fifteen minutes later.

A 99-year-old woman was picked up by police and put behind bars last week - in a generous move to help her complete her bucket list.

A woman has lost a personal injury case after a judged ruled that her fall down two flights of stairs at a famous jazz club in Soho was a result of her being obese, drunk and careless. Eren Hussein, 53, sought thousands of pounds in damages from Ronnie Scott’s jazz club after the mishap in 2012.

A man has accused his dog of shooting his sleeping girlfriend. Brian Murphy told police that he brought his dog Diesel into his bedroom after a long walk before leaving the room.

Environmentalists organising a vegetarian festival to mark Earth Day on April 23 in the German town of Kassel have been told by their local council that they must include stalls selling popular meaty sausages including the local cured delicacy ahle wurst. At a meeting on Monday, councillors backed a

Drug dealers in New Zealand are using garden gnomes as currency sparking an upsurge in thefts of garden ornaments. Officers in the North Island region of Hawke's Bay found more than 300 stolen outdoor ornaments at a property that was having its power cut off after running up a huge bill, the Stuff.c

A small German town has removed a children's song about a fox stealing a goose from its repertoire of town hall bell melodies, after a vegan resident protested. The picture-book town of Limburg an der Lahn in Hesse entertains its locals with tunes chimed out by its town hall glockenspiel or carillio